At the Automattic Grand Meetup in 2018 the company hired out The Wizarding World of Harry Potter which was an amazing evening. Lots of over priced merchandise but also a fire breathing dragon and these fabulous entertainers!
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 105mm |
| ISO | 20000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/125s |
September 2016 at the Automattic Grand Meetup in Whistler, Canada.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 28mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
Walking back to the main building of Quinta da Roêda in the Douro Valley, Portugal in 2019. This tree was probably the tallest in the immediate area.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 31mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/100s |
A statue in the middle of Whistler, Canada. I love the contrast between the black statue of the fruit and cup and the bright red of the bush in the background.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 146mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
Beautiful late afternoon light hits the hills of the Douro Valley in Portugal in November 2019.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 84mm |
| ISO | 125 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
Birds resting on a construction crane above my head in Porto, Portugal back in November 2019.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 105mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 2s |
The vines in a distant field as seen from Quinta da Roêda. Bit of a drive from Porto, but lovely to visit.
Portugal, November 2019.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 35mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/640s |
One of the benefits of working from home at Automattic is meeting up with your team a few times a year in various parts of the world. Obviously that did not happen last year, won’t happen this year either and we had been playing a meetup for April or May last year but that didn’t work out.
In November 2019 I met my team in Porto, Portugal. During the week we had a day to relax so we did a tour of vineyards. After a lengthy drive we toured a couple, took a boat ride on the local river and had a nice meal in a local restaurant. The Quinta da Foz was the second vineyard we visited and it was wonderful. Old architecture and setting mixed with new technology to make wine.
Here’s the view from the road in front looking out on a tributary of the Douro River. It’s a beautiful part of Portugal.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 125 |
| Shutter speed | 1/400s |
The Dom Luís Bridge in Porto, Portugal last November.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 23mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 3.2s |
Stinson Beach, California. July 2007.
| Aperture | ƒ/9 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 59mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
The Pantheon is an almost 2,000 year old building in Rome. Originally it was a pagan temple but it is now a church and has been used throughout it’s history.
The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon’s dome is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 142 feet (43 m). (Wikipedia)
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 17mm |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/30s |
The trapeze artist at the final night’s party at the 2017 #a8cgm.
Whistler, Canada. September 2017.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 210mm |
| ISO | 12800 |
| Shutter speed | 1/125s |